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These include the council buying its own PPE equipment, securing 297 beds in two hotels for temporary use as community beds and securing 1,200 social care beds.

The council’s 2020/21 budget includes, within its reserves, a general balance of £56.6 million set aside to allow the council to deal with unexpected events or costs at short notice.

This sum would ordinarily be enough to fund the council’s activities for 21 days.

Using the £37.4 million Covid-19 funding received from central government to replenish the general balance would go some way to restoring some of the financial resilience that the council had budgeted for.

However, this sum would only be sufficient to fund 13 days of the council’s activities, instead of the 21 days for which it was originally planned.